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Amazon Sales Record

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the online-is-where-its-at dept.

Arcadi writes "Amazon set a new record of items sold on a single day. More than 2.8 million units or 32 items per second. That's a big store."

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  1. Which day? by Albinofrenchy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    From what I've seen, Amazon won't say which day the record was set, or why they won't say which day the record was set. Why the secrecy?

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    1. Re:Which day? by Attar81 · · Score: 5, Informative

      It says Thanksgiving Weekend, so I would guess that's it that Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year.

  2. Wow, early adopters by Whafro · · Score: 5, Funny

    SEATTLE (AP) - Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) on Monday said sales of consumer electronics surpassed book sales for the first time and was its largest sales category over the Thanksgiving weekend, launching the online retailer's busiest holiday selling season in 10 years.

    So, erm, they had a bigger day back in like, 1994?

  3. Oracle by DogDude · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'd like to point out that Amazon DOES NOT use MySQL before the MySQL kiddies say "see, it can scale!"

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  4. OneDay(tm) Shopping by SuperBanana · · Score: 5, Funny
    From what I've seen, Amazon won't say which day the record was set, or why they won't say which day the record was set. Why the secrecy?

    OneDay shopping. You don't tell anyone about something you're patenting until AFTER you patent it! Jeez, pay attention.

    Meanwhile, let's get some prior art going, people! I've got Monday.

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  5. 2.8 Million, at 32 Items per second by Mean_Nishka · · Score: 5, Funny

    And not a dime of profit :).

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  6. Re:32 items per second? Wow! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'll let you in on a little secret - Amazon.com's codebase was C (now most likely migrated to C++, to take advanatge of things lik OOP among other reasons). It consisted of a gazillion modules which compiled to give you ONE BINARY, called obidos - check out the URL then you'll see what I'm saying. This one binary is then tied to Apache, and then fed out to their 500+ webservers. But the beauty of it is there redundancy measures. At any given time there are 3 copies the binary, a, b & c. a = The latest code. b = yesterday's stable build. c = another stable build. In case there's a bug in some build, they simply have to flip the switch to get an up and running site. It was great, but the part that's a BITCH is developing this stuff. Imagine having to re-compile all of Amazon, just to FIX A BLASTED TYPO. Posting anonymously for obvious reasons...